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Rally at city hall aims to promote regular government services and benefits to anyone who is here By Syed Hussan – Over one hundred Torontonians, including undocumented immigrants denied city services, are expected to be in City Hall dressed in ...

Two reports are available for download on study results and recommendations about making the city’s laneways safer, more exciting By Jayme Turney – Toronto Public Space Initiative Completes Research and Guidelines On Laneway Animation Over 2012 and 2013 Toronto Public ...

Program matches 20 qualified candidates with 9 select community projects, and ends April 2013 By Jayme Turney – This pilot project, Transformation Through Participation, developed by planning consultants (Josephine Cusumano and Justin Shin) and our own TPSI staff, matches senior ...

In advance of the provincial Throne Speech By Craig Saunders – Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) will leaflet at subway stations surrounding Queen’s Park on Tuesday, in advance of the provincial Throne Speech. “Collective bargaining and ...

By Peter Cowley – The Fraser Institute’s Report Card on Ontario’s Elementary Schools 2013, the go-to source for measuring school improvement, will be released Sunday, February 17 at 6:30 a.m. (Eastern). The report card provides parents with information they can’t ...

Frank Touby – A bold initiative to serve both as a fund-raiser for needy individuals and worthy organizations and as a “drug-free, booze-free” currency good only for food-and-necessities, the Toronto Dollar is in dire straits. This is somewhat of a ...

Dennis Hanagan – A staff report that recommends taking money slated for a St. Lawrence Neighbourhood park and using it instead to spruce up Market Street was left up in the air at the Jan. 22 meeting of the Toronto ...

As part of its mission to keep the streets clean, the Downtown Yonge Business Improvement Area (BIA) has l installed 12 cigarette receptacle ashtrays along both sides of Yonge St. between Gerrard and Dundas. The receptacles were installed on streetlight ...

Dennis Hanagan – At its Jan. 22 meeting, Toronto and East York community council deferred two applications for zoning amendments with proposals to build residential buildings at 324-338 Richmond St. W. and 24 Mercer St. In the Richmond St. case ...

A special meeting of the planning and growth management committee on the city-wide zoning by-law previously scheduled for Feb. 13 has been rescheduled for March 6 at 9:30 a.m. in the council chamber at city hall, 100 Queen St. W. The ...